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[fiveeagles]

Pro Palin video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjGhy8LVwAo

Pro Obama video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj2dMb6fecY

I would like to see Newt vs Carville on this one.

I think McCain did this on purpose so that this debate would happen.

[Czarjorge]

It depends on how you define experience. Is running a campaign for two years executive experience? Do you take into account the size of Alaska's population when taking into account Palin's experience? Are we talking specifically about 'executive' experience, or about foreign policy experience? What about experience examining the issues that face our country?

In terms of experience needed to be President Obama wins as he's been preparing for the job for several years and Palin has been the head of one of the third smallest state in terms of population in the nation.

Would you really want Palin to be President?

[aka Dave]

I think the whole experience thing is bogus. I think a really effective CEO who's brilliant and tough could be an excellent choice, even if they had no government experience. Abraham Lincoln, our best president, had little experience.

More important: who has the intelligence, wisdom, patience, good sense, and leadership skills to be an effective executive.

In that case Obama blows her away.

[Rteacher]

I think that Palin (aptly nicknamed "baracuda") clearly has more experience being a nasty bitch.

[fiveeagles]

[Czarjorge]

How would facing Papa Bear be any worse than facing criticism from Hillary? Facing Papa Bear is significantly less valuable in terms of real political importance than facing Hillary.

And yes, running a state and running a campaign for President are very different. For one, Obama had more employees running a national campaign for President than Palin had in Alaska. You do understand how small the population of Alaska is, dont' you?

[aarontendo]

So are we saying that we can't vote in politicians from smaller states? I guess we should just stick to people from Texas that's worked well thus far.

[Czarjorge]

[Tiger Beer]

Only fiveeagles would NOT have researched any of this to know the difference. Is RIGHT WING TALK RADIO that strong even in Canada, or is that just international evangelical groups that spread misinformation across the border as well.

Obama is a Senator PLUS has a LAW DEGREE plus graduated from COLOMBIA. Plus has international experience oozing out of him and everything else you can imagine. He hasn't been around as long as the fossilized guys like Biden and McCain, but he certainly has some pretty amazing credentials. Colombia University and Law Degrees certainly aren't a joke, and neither is wrestling a campaign away from Hiliary, and certainly not being on the Senate Floor with the big boys and holding his own all along the way, and out-doing most of the ones already there. It is no accident that he is where he is today.

PALIN. Well, for starters, I have more education than PALIN. She has a B.A. from the University of Idaho. She got her first passport two years ago in 2006. She is JUST BARELY qualified to teach ENGLISH in KOREA, and only at hogwan jobs. She has NO exposure on the national stage whatsoever, just pushed into the spot for being a gun-toting mother of 5 kids. Those ARE her qualifications. If she WASN'T a NRA MOTHER, she certainly wouldn't have been offered THIS kind of position by McCain, and she CERTAINLY wouldnt have made it this far if she were campaigning as PREZ back in January and trying to run with the big boys all along the way with NO creditionals to her. It was just a few months ago that she was wondering what a V.P. even does.

You have to REALLY be a VERY VERY PARTISAN person to even suggest that Palin is anywhere even in the same ballpark next to Obama, let alone MORE THAN Obama.